17 Mar
2008
17 Mar
'08
11:15 a.m.
Congratulation to the XWiki team for the first
release! and thanks for
your
replies.
I didn't realize I'v tried it before your release notice! :-) (as I
thought
it was released some time in the last week) Anyway, I've been actively
waiting for it.
The key decision is just whether I should use XE and copy the XWS
functions,
or hack the code and request for features to allow XWS be used for public
service. It seems obviously that the latter option is much better. As
mentioned before, it's for a JUG. The use cases are straightforward:
- a global blog+wiki+photo that is readable by anonymous users and
editable by a few committee members, (maybe comment by registered
users)
- Some spaces for collaboration works that any registered member are
editable, and
- every user could create his own space.
The functions are pretty much there already. The key missing thing is just
making the global space publicly accessible. I'll fire some Jira issues
later. Thanks.
If you are ready to look under the hood, we can definitely help you
realizing that. Actually having your organization's space visible by
unregistered users is not very hard. Once its created, you can do as
follow (logged as Admin):
- Click the "Administration" link in the XWiki toolbar
- Click the "Space rights" tab in the administration page
- Select your organization top-level space in the drop-down list (the one
without any suffix: Space_MyOrganization, not Space_MyOrganization_Wiki or
Space_MyOrganization_Blog)
- Once its loaded, click twice the checkbox for unregistered users under
"view" to have it green-checked (it should appear with a red circle at
first).
- ... and your done! The _Wiki, _Blog, etc. spaces will inherit their
rights from that top-level one, so you shouldn't have anything to do for
them.
If you want to have registered users able to comment, you can check the
"comment" box for XWikiAllGroup as well.
Hope this helps,
Jerome.
Regards,
mingfai
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:37 AM, Mingfai wrote:
hi,
I wonder if I'm the first few outside people to try XWS milestone 1. :-)
Well, I'm evaluating the XWiki series of products for my Java User Group
in Hong Kong. XWS "looks" better than XE to me and it seems XWS allows
every
user to create his/her own space of blog, wiki, photo and files, that
perfectly fit my needs. I wonder:
- could XWS provide public registration, and anonymous
(/non-logged-in) user access mode?
- could XE actually do all XWS can do and I should use XE for public
service? In fact, I feel XE has steeper learning curve than XWS. It
seems XE
does not provide individual blog, photo and file spaces
XE can do everything. It's a second generation wiki. All XWiki products
are based on XE (and the underlying platform). For example even if in XE
you
have one blog by default, nothing prevents you to create as many as you
want
in the way you want them to be (you can imagine any kind of use case).
XWS is definitely meant to be a wrapper around XE to make it simpler and
to provide a solution which is oriented towards personal work spaces
that
you can share with others. XE is generic, XWS implements a specific
solution
based on work groups.
Thus if XWS matches your needs you should definitely use it over XE.
Thanks
-Vincent
- any pointer if I want to limit one user to create only one space?
- could anyone point me to where I may be able to customize the
space name and url? basically, the use of "Space_" as prefix look
quite odd
to me and i would like to remove it. And if it is possible i would
want to
make the url shorter. Currently, it's something like: "
http://mydomain.com/xwiki/bin/view/Space_username/"quot;, i am able to
remove the context "xwiki", and i suppose it shouldn't be difficult
to turn
Space_username to username. It's most desirable to turn bin/view to
nothing
or make it a single "folder", e.g. remove "/bin" (i suppose the
action cannot be removed.)
regarding URL, i wonder if the developers like to go to the REST-ful
direction. Some people think in REST-ful URL only resource but not
action
should be put as the path. (certainly, i understand in using Struts,
some
options may not be available)
Thank you very much.
Regards,
mingfai
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